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Hi there. Welcome to another episode of the FAKTR podcast. I'm your host, Jessica Riddle. In today's episode, we're diving deep into the missing link in sports chiropractic and rehab education with someone who's helping redefine how we think about clinical performance, doctor Tom Teter. Doctor Teter brings a unique perspective blending his background and strength and conditioning with years of hands on clinical and teaching experience. After he noticed significant gaps between traditional clinical education and what's truly needed to serve athletes and active individuals, he developed a framework that bridges sports medicine and human performance. Taking patients beyond injury recovery and into long term performance enhancement. In this conversation, you'll hear how doctor Teter developed the clinical human performance practitioner model.

What he sees is the biggest gaps in current sports med certifications, and how his algorithm based approach is helping providers across disciplines work more collaboratively, while also getting better outcomes for their patients. Whether you're new to the world of sports rehab or a seasoned provider looking to level up your approach, this episode is full of insights you can take straight into practice. Let's get into it.

So doctor Teter, I think it would be really cool to first start off with a little bit of a look back at how all of this started. Obviously, you took a factor course many, many years ago, met doctor Riddle, and had some thoughts about some gaps that you were seeing in clinical education at the time. Is that is that a kind of a fair segue into what that started out as?

Yeah. I think so. I think I took my first factor course in 2015, and, obviously, since I've taken it four or five times now. So at the time, I had a I I met doctor Riddle, and I had a really interesting conversation with him over lunch about... he works with high level athletes. A large portion of my practice has always been high level athletes. And and just in striking up a conversation, we started talking about some of my experiences with some of the gaps that I tend to see between sports medicine and clinical practice and what happens in sports performance and skills training. And those kind of the impetus for me at the time, I was a professor at a university and I was working with the university's athletic department. And a lot of this stuff that I've put into the course was solutions that we had to to have to the problems we were seeing in this university athletic department.

And I think a lot of the information that's scattered throughout the course really comes from me having to try to come up with solutions to these really complex problems that we see in this divide that we have between sports medicine and sports performance.

Yeah. Absolutely. And I guess a lot of that probably came from the background that you had prior to going to chiropractic school. Correct? So you were already working in strength and conditioning and in fitness way before you ever started in chiropractic school. Is that correct?